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It can be increased ... but not by a whole lot, as that means more RAM consumed by this background app .... (thats the way its currently designed ...)

Sorry to hear about your situation few years back ... But I am glad you wrote this comment b/c up until you said it ... my comments about bullying were based solely on a hunch...

If one person in that situation can benefit from it today ... I would think the whole thing paid off...

I cannot give a date on Android yet, but its definitely coming ... :-)

Thanks!

I expect ios7 will make that part less intrusive ... will check.

Both valid concerns ... it works reasonably well on both counts in my opinion (but others will need to try it to form their own opinions)...

Btw, I dog-fooded it for several months before deciding to release publicly, based on how useful I found it :-)

Thanks! :-) The site is built using a great (and very economical) theme from themeforest: http://themeforest.net/item/vireo-ultra-responsive-app-landi...

Good points ... will fix :-)

5) There is a big toggle switch that lets the user shut ON/Off background listening ....

hehe ... did they not start a free backup/retrieval service for all the data ? One you can't actually opt out of :-)

Slightly worse than when holding the phone in your hand ... but overall perfectly audible. Thanks.

There are a few points that help:

1) This is not meant to be a spying device (given it can not remember anything more than 5 mins old anyway).

2)Instead it is meant to be kind of a "personal memory enhancer" .... so you are basically recording conversations you are a part of and there are no laws against that.

Infact an excellent use of this is to fight bullying, where you can capture the bully (or black mailer etc) without their knowledge and there is nothing illegal about it because you are a part of that conversation.

3) Nothing gets written to long term memory unless the user tells the app to do so.

4) we don't let the user do anything that they cannot already do with an actively recording (Apple supplied) Voice Memo app. We just it make more convenient to capture the interesting parts of their life without having to sift through gigs of audio data every day

The idea for HEARD was born one evening as my wife and I sat at the dinner table and she described to me some funny thing my 2 yr old son had said earlier that day... I wondered out loud: "How great would it be to have an app that lets you save such cute little things (that usually came as a surprise)... but AFTER you had already heard them..." and she said: "that would be an amazing thing to have ... but how is that possible ?"

Well, by that time I already knew I had to build something like that, and a precursor to HEARD was born.... It has made us feel surprisingly empowered over the past several months we have been using it ....

Now HEARD is available for everyone to enjoy as an iPhone app available on the App Store ... Please check it out and share with people who you think might benefit from it. In particular any parents with young kids that want to preserve these wonderful moments with their children. Thanks guys!

I should have said ... the variability is b/c of what else I happen to be doing with my phone that day...

Thanks for asking. I keep it running in the background regularly and get 12 hrs easily and 15hrs normal with my iPhone 5 ...

Compared to something like navigation which drains it in ~4 hrs.

So the extra battery drain will not be a deal breaker for many ... but it still might be for some.... Totally depends on the user's situation in my opinion.

Good to hear this perspective. Thats exactly what I am pursuing for WannaGet.com , and its encouraging to know that I am following a route that more experienced folks agree with :-)